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but what turned dzhokhar and tamerlan tsarnaev into terrorists? i'm joined now by our new abc news colleague, byron pitts. welcome to "nightline" and the rain. >> thank you very much. >> what can you tell us about these two men? >> juju, tonight a portrait of the suspected bombers is emerging. two brothers who came to the u.s. in 2003. like millions of immigrants, they came here in search of a better life. but something went terribly wrong. >> my sons would never, ever imagine that somehow the children of my brother would be associated with that. >> reporter: tonight some family members of the two brothers accused of the worst attack in the u.s. since 9/11 are asking the question no one seems to be able to answer tonight. why. their uncle in maryland says he thinks he knows. >> what do you think provoked this? >> being losers. hatred to those who were able to settle themselves. these are the only reasons i can imagine of. >> reporter: but what might have driven 26-year-old tamerlan tsarnaev and his 19-year-old brother dzhokhar to allegedly plant a
but what turned dzhokhar and tamerlan tsarnaev into terrorists? i'm joined now by our new abc news colleague, byron pitts. welcome to "nightline" and the rain. >> thank you very much. >> what can you tell us about these two men? >> juju, tonight a portrait of the suspected bombers is emerging. two brothers who came to the u.s. in 2003. like millions of immigrants, they came here in search of a better life. but something went terribly wrong. >> my sons would...
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tamerlan tsarnaev. number two on the loose, a fugitive right now, believed to be armed and dangerous, described as a terrorist, he was caught on camera last night, he's been on the loose for several hours and all of boston, the entire city of boston surrounding suburbs in lockdown right now. >> that's right. abc news just spoke to those boys' father, he is in shock and implores his son to himself up. he told abc news, he said that he think his sons were set up and he said they were very nice kids, never touched explosives and never learned how to handle weapons. he said that his younger son is on the run and in hiding because he's also afraid, words from his father. never saw indication at all atwas capable of violence. we're reminded by brad garrett, our fbi specialing at, often these terrorist lead double lives. we begin with chief investigative brian ross, on the ground, all through the night in watertown, brian, a night of gunfire, bombs, police hunting down the terrorists right now. >> reporter: in
tamerlan tsarnaev. number two on the loose, a fugitive right now, believed to be armed and dangerous, described as a terrorist, he was caught on camera last night, he's been on the loose for several hours and all of boston, the entire city of boston surrounding suburbs in lockdown right now. >> that's right. abc news just spoke to those boys' father, he is in shock and implores his son to himself up. he told abc news, he said that he think his sons were set up and he said they were very...
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authorities say the two suspects jahar and tamerlan tsarnaev are brothers of chechen ethnicity. the older brother has been shot and killed but the younger brother, jahar is on the run from police. police say the 19-year-old is armed with explosives. watertown massachusetts and other surrounding areas in boston are on lock down. s.w.a.t. teams and police going door to door looking for remaining suspect. >> we have several other new leads just developing and we're working on that. >> the fbi leased more pictures of the alleged trift along with a new wanted poster. >> they can wait him out in a way. he's going show himself at some point. they'll see him if he tries to move. i think that is the hope. >> thursday night a surveillance camera captures this image matching the man identified just hours before as suspect two. later police say the brothers ambushed a campus police officer and m.ti, killing and after car jacking a mercedes suv. the uncle says he hasn't been in touch with nephews for years but urged his sur are vifing nephew to surrender. >> jahar if you're alive turn yourse
authorities say the two suspects jahar and tamerlan tsarnaev are brothers of chechen ethnicity. the older brother has been shot and killed but the younger brother, jahar is on the run from police. police say the 19-year-old is armed with explosives. watertown massachusetts and other surrounding areas in boston are on lock down. s.w.a.t. teams and police going door to door looking for remaining suspect. >> we have several other new leads just developing and we're working on that. >>...
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tamerlan says he doesn't drink or smoke anymore, god says no alcohol. a muslim, he says there are no values anymore and worries that people can't control themselves. one ing, these pictures are apparently from 2010. we keep saying he's been here five years. if that's from about 2010 he's probably been here in the united states about eight years, traveling back as you said to russia last year which i did ask that official about and what that meant, but he was a very will skilled boxer, very skilled and went to this gym all of the time and was trying to be in the olympics. the pictures are from a magazine called "the comment," the graduate student magazine at the boston university college of communications and the headline for these photographs is "will box for passport. an olympic drive to become a united states citizen." the coach said he was good enough to be pro and was good enough to be pro and you asked about the official about the six months in russia and any indication and whether they're learning about it now? >> that's the exact kind of thing th
tamerlan says he doesn't drink or smoke anymore, god says no alcohol. a muslim, he says there are no values anymore and worries that people can't control themselves. one ing, these pictures are apparently from 2010. we keep saying he's been here five years. if that's from about 2010 he's probably been here in the united states about eight years, traveling back as you said to russia last year which i did ask that official about and what that meant, but he was a very will skilled boxer, very...
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tamerlan was charged in cambridge with beating his former girlfriend. he started posting violent videos. >> that's why he was demonized. >> he began writing bazaar tweets. a decade in america already, i want out. authorities never saw this coming. investigators are asking this morning, are there more cell members out there? that's the critical question, dan and bianna. >> and pierre, when you talked to your sources, do you sense a high level of concern that there may be co-plotters out there? >> dan, i think they are trying to find out are there more people out there? so critical they talk to the younger brother who's still recovering from the injuries. they say they must find that out as quickly as possible. there's an international investigation under way to get to that subject. >>> time is of the essence, so let's bring in george stephanopoulos, host of "this week." good morning, george. i want to show a picture, are they forced now to consider launch a military response? if in fact these brothers are connected to an international plot? >> i think th
tamerlan was charged in cambridge with beating his former girlfriend. he started posting violent videos. >> that's why he was demonized. >> he began writing bazaar tweets. a decade in america already, i want out. authorities never saw this coming. investigators are asking this morning, are there more cell members out there? that's the critical question, dan and bianna. >> and pierre, when you talked to your sources, do you sense a high level of concern that there may be...
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tamerlan spent the first half of 2012 back in russia himself. what he was doing there remains unclear. >> give me evidence. all you showed me, man's face in a hat standing like this. what else? >> ah, my two sons are really innocent. i'm like 100% sure that this is a setup. >> reporter: the boys' mother and their aunt defended them today. and this woman, allegedly a sister living in new jersey, fended off the media. >> i'm very, very upset right now because i lost -- listen, i'm so sorry. >> they're related. they're brothers, right? >> no, they're not. >> reporter: and while so many questions remain about what finally turned these brothers into alleged terrorists, their family is now left with the difficult task of clearing their name. >> my family, my family associated. we're not requiring forgiveness in this family. people are ashamed. he put shame on our tsarnaev's family. he put a shame on our family, the tsarnaev family. he put a shame on the entire chechen ethnicity. because everyone now names the play with the word chechen. so, they put t
tamerlan spent the first half of 2012 back in russia himself. what he was doing there remains unclear. >> give me evidence. all you showed me, man's face in a hat standing like this. what else? >> ah, my two sons are really innocent. i'm like 100% sure that this is a setup. >> reporter: the boys' mother and their aunt defended them today. and this woman, allegedly a sister living in new jersey, fended off the media. >> i'm very, very upset right now because i lost --...
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tamerlan was charged in boating a former girlfriend. jahar began writing bizarre tweets. authorities never saw this coming. investigators are asking this morning, are there more cell members out there? that's the critical question, dan and bianna. >> pierre, a high level of security that there may be co-plotters out there. >> dan, think are trying to find out are there more people out there? so critical they talk to the younger brother who's still recovering from the injuries. they say they must find that out as quickly as possible. there's an international investigation under way to get to that subject. >>> time is of the essence, let's bring in george stephanopoulos, host of "this week." are they forced now to consider launch a military response? >> i think that's getting way ahead of ours, based on everything we know, even if there were accomplices, those accomplices were tied to a cell overseas to be identified and targeted. remember, they went back to russia, russia has been fighting these chechens separatts i think mitary action is not being contemplated here in any
tamerlan was charged in boating a former girlfriend. jahar began writing bizarre tweets. authorities never saw this coming. investigators are asking this morning, are there more cell members out there? that's the critical question, dan and bianna. >> pierre, a high level of security that there may be co-plotters out there. >> dan, think are trying to find out are there more people out there? so critical they talk to the younger brother who's still recovering from the injuries. they...
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russell is now a single parent to the 3-year-old daughter she had with tamerlan. her attorney says she didn't know her husband was a bombing suspect until she saw it on television. >> we are learning more about russell's husband and growing dissatisfaction with mainstream religion. three months before the marathon bombings, tamerlan tsarnaev, visited a cambridge mosque and shouted out after the speaker compared the prophet muhammad with martin luther king jr. in his first interview, he tells abc news how the congregation reacted. >> they just straight up shouted at him that, you need to leave, you know, so he stepped out of the sermon. after the sermon and prayers were done, some of the leaders of the center sat down with him and said, listen, you have a clear choice. either you're silent from now on during the sermons or you're not going to be welcome here. >> he says that wasn't tamerlan's only outburst. another time, he loudly objected when a speaker said it was appropriate to celebrate thanksgiving the same way one would celebrate the birthday of the prophet.
russell is now a single parent to the 3-year-old daughter she had with tamerlan. her attorney says she didn't know her husband was a bombing suspect until she saw it on television. >> we are learning more about russell's husband and growing dissatisfaction with mainstream religion. three months before the marathon bombings, tamerlan tsarnaev, visited a cambridge mosque and shouted out after the speaker compared the prophet muhammad with martin luther king jr. in his first interview, he...
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tamerlan came here to renew his passport. the aunt says he stayed to train as a boxer. she said he prayed at the mosque on fridays but denied they fought over religion. we would debate with him. but not fighting. tamerlan spent six months and visited chechnya three times to visit family and also choosing to fly home from the chechen capital. younger brother, dzhokhar was expected to visit, in may. his uncle is praying for him to survive. so he can tell us what really happened, he said. abc news, dagestan. >>> it's been nearly a week now since the twin bomb blasts at the boston marathon. more than 180 people were wounded in the attack. right now we believe 52 are still hospitalized. three are in critical condition. one of them is a transport, transit officer in boston, and his name is richard donahue. the 33-year-old was severely wounded in the early friday shootout with the bombing suspects. >> all right, everybody really wants to get some type of normalcy, some routine in boston. will slowly start reopening. it will be a couple days before it gets totally back to the c
tamerlan came here to renew his passport. the aunt says he stayed to train as a boxer. she said he prayed at the mosque on fridays but denied they fought over religion. we would debate with him. but not fighting. tamerlan spent six months and visited chechnya three times to visit family and also choosing to fly home from the chechen capital. younger brother, dzhokhar was expected to visit, in may. his uncle is praying for him to survive. so he can tell us what really happened, he said. abc...
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the older brother, tamerlan tsarnaev, was killed in an intense shootout thursday night. the search for his brother ended friday night. the 19-year-old suspect was found hiding and bleeding this a boat sitting in the backyard of a watertown resident. dzhokhar remains hospitalized under heavy guard in a hospital in boston, unable to communicate. but officials are casting a wider net in the complex investigation in what motivated the brothers. two of his classmates were arrested saturday in new bedford on administrative immigration investigations. after five days of terror, people in boston are trying to move on. >> we put it behind us and are moving on. >> on saturday that meant returning to fenway park where bostonians got back to their favorite pastime. they also went back to the scene of the shootout and capture. >> the grieving and healing continues today. bostonians will gather for mass in this cathedral behind me in a few hours. boston is remembering, but it's also moving on. live in boston, tamon bradley, abc7 news. >> you know before you go we are hearing a red fla
the older brother, tamerlan tsarnaev, was killed in an intense shootout thursday night. the search for his brother ended friday night. the 19-year-old suspect was found hiding and bleeding this a boat sitting in the backyard of a watertown resident. dzhokhar remains hospitalized under heavy guard in a hospital in boston, unable to communicate. but officials are casting a wider net in the complex investigation in what motivated the brothers. two of his classmates were arrested saturday in new...
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and then my, my tamerlan used to tell me he used to talk to them. they called me once the they wanted his number. and then, at such moments i used to get worried. >> reporter: at this point, zubeidat does not plan to travel to the u.s. to bury tamerlan and see her son dzhokhar at the hospital he was charged where he is recovering. abc news learned that tsarnaev has an outstanding arrest warrant after she missed a court appearance in october stemming from a shoplifting case. charged with three felony counts for allegedly stealing $1,600 from lord & taylor in massachusetts last june. wendy gillette, abc news, new york. >>> a funeral mass was held yesterday in boston for the youngest marathon bombing victim, only family members attended for martin richard. friends and family and fellow police officers paying tribute to the m.i.t. police officer sean collier, he was fatally shot three days after the bombing. vice president biden attend a memorial service for collier later today. >>> for the first time we're hearing from david henneberry who owned the bo
and then my, my tamerlan used to tell me he used to talk to them. they called me once the they wanted his number. and then, at such moments i used to get worried. >> reporter: at this point, zubeidat does not plan to travel to the u.s. to bury tamerlan and see her son dzhokhar at the hospital he was charged where he is recovering. abc news learned that tsarnaev has an outstanding arrest warrant after she missed a court appearance in october stemming from a shoplifting case. charged with...
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tamerlan is also the father of a 3-year-old daughter, i am told. amzort moved back and lived in massachusetts for ten years and moved back to russia for health reasons. he did tell me, george, that he did speak with both of his sons, of course, these are his words, not mine, tell you what he told me. police said he spoke with both of his sons following the bombings in boston on monday, monday evening. he asked them if they were there in the vicinity. they said no, they don't attend such things much they were very calm. no reason for him to assume they were somehow involved. he also said they had no involvement with any organizations, very calm, very bright students focused a lot on schoolwork. didn't have many friends outside of school. tamerlan, his elder son is married, has a 3-year-old daughter and also told me amzort has two more daughters who live in new york. so that's what we know right now. he has not spoken with dzhokhar but he had a message he would like me to convey to him if dzhokhar happens to be watching and that to give himself up. c
tamerlan is also the father of a 3-year-old daughter, i am told. amzort moved back and lived in massachusetts for ten years and moved back to russia for health reasons. he did tell me, george, that he did speak with both of his sons, of course, these are his words, not mine, tell you what he told me. police said he spoke with both of his sons following the bombings in boston on monday, monday evening. he asked them if they were there in the vicinity. they said no, they don't attend such things...
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. >> lots of questions that tamerlan, the older brother, had been questioned before by the fbi, in 2011, at the request of the russian government. >> well, that's right. but, think about this, george, there are hundreds of thousands of young adults in this country that visit extremist islamic websites, he was one of them, so the question is, what line do you draw that we continue the investigation? or do we go and interview, make a decision on other intelligence that were not going to pursue an active case against him? >> you're already seeing some congressmen, peter king, criticizing, saying this was a missed opportunity. >> that's great to say. but when you have literally hundreds of thousands of people you want to keep track of, you want to prioritize. they're going to miss one every once in a while. when you approach them, when you interview them or do their background, they may not have radicalized to the level of what we saw on monday. >> going to websites wouldn't be enough? >> absolutely not. >> the older brother went back to russia in 2012, was there for several months. we know
. >> lots of questions that tamerlan, the older brother, had been questioned before by the fbi, in 2011, at the request of the russian government. >> well, that's right. but, think about this, george, there are hundreds of thousands of young adults in this country that visit extremist islamic websites, he was one of them, so the question is, what line do you draw that we continue the investigation? or do we go and interview, make a decision on other intelligence that were not going...
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could youering, bleeding after a shootout where police that left his 267-year-old brother tamerlan dead. police said they tracked them down after they execute an m.i.t. officer and then led police on a wild chase. tsarnaev, he lived here for more than a decade, he got away but not for long. his arrest praised by the president. >> we've closed an important chapter in this tragedy. >> and by this community still in mourning. >> it brings a sigh of relief, and i think it really allows us to start the healing process. >> and we learned the fib has asked hospital officials not to give any more updates about the suspect's conditions, so we still don't know if investigators have been able to question him about the motive. abc news. back to you. >> thank you, marscy. an odd twist in the shoot of course an m.i.t. officer. an event that touched off that manhunt. 26-year-old sean colyer was a young father with a six-month-old baby. they believe the tsarnaev brothers shot him in his squad cars on m.i.t.'s campus. the twist is that colyer recently began volunteering at the boxes gym with suspect num
could youering, bleeding after a shootout where police that left his 267-year-old brother tamerlan dead. police said they tracked them down after they execute an m.i.t. officer and then led police on a wild chase. tsarnaev, he lived here for more than a decade, he got away but not for long. his arrest praised by the president. >> we've closed an important chapter in this tragedy. >> and by this community still in mourning. >> it brings a sigh of relief, and i think it really...